Djakarta

Djakarta:

see JakartaJakartaor Djakarta, city and special district (1990 pop. 8,227,746), capital and largest city of Indonesia, NW Java, at the mouth of the canalized Ciliwung River, on Jakarta Bay, an inlet of the Java Sea......Click the link for more information..

Jakarta

, Djakarta

the capital of Indonesia, in N West Java: founded in 1619 and ruled by the Dutch until 1945; the chief trading centre of the East in the 17th century; University of Indonesia (1947). Pop.: 8 347 083 (2000)

Rostow himself proposes as a solution to this crisis "the dilemmas and worries of the men in Djakarta, Rangoon, New Delhi, and Karachi; the men in Tehran, Baghdad, and Cairo; the men South of the desert too, in Accra, Lagos, and Salisbury" (166).

In his speech before NAM's 16th Ministerial Conference opened in the Indonesian capital, Djakarta, Zebari asserted Iraq's commitment to support the Palestinians' struggle to regain their rights in establishing a Palestinian state with Quds being its capital and the withdrawal from all Palestinian territories.

The Dutch became a colonial power in the 17th century, and de Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC; Dutch East India Company) was set up in 1602, with a head office in Asia at Djakarta (then known as Batavia), Indonesia in charge of trading.

But it is urgent that Mennonites also consciously learn how to be church in Chicago, New York, Montreal, Vancouver, Berlin, London, Kinshasa, Bulawayo, Asuncion or Djakarta if they are going to contextualize the Gospel and "out-narrate" the dominant narratives of the globalized mega-city driven by profit, economic growth and violence, all increasingly fueled by common media sources.

Later, in June 1963, during a visit to Indonesia, Smulders met with the bishops at Djakarta and with them prepared an evaluation of the revised text De divina revelatione, which had been distributed to all the Vatican II bishops in May 1963.

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